Improvement in fens



alma s-ma @zum femm.

JAMES W. TRUMAN, oF MACON, GEORG-IA.

Lette/rs Patent No 91,056, dated June 8, 1869.

IMPRVEMENT IN PENS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pari'. ofthe sama.

To all whom it mwy concern:

Be it known that I, JAWES W. TRUMAN, of Macon, in the county of'. Bibb,and State of Georgia, h ave invented a new and improved Writing-Pen; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled-in the art to makeand use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,forming part 0f this specification, inwhich- Figure 1 represents auinverted plan view,r of my improved writing-pen.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Similar letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts.

, The invention consists in arranging, under a split .or non-splitplate, which is shaped similar to the or- 'dinary steel pen, an adjust-able wire or rod, which, with its end, will form the writing-pointof the pen. The

end of this wire or rod can be fed forward when worn,

and used again, until the wire is almost entirelyused up, and the wirecan then be readily' replaced. The

`ink is held and flows freely between the plate and rod.

A,finthe drawing, represents a plate, made of metal,

rubber, or other suitable material, shaped similarto the ordinary steelpen, buty not necessarily split, and is fastened to a handle, B.

C is a wire, or other fine rod, -arranged on -tlie nnder side of theplate A, and guided in an eye, or eyes, a, formed on the same, as shown.

This wire or' rod may be attached tothe handle, or simply held under theplate, but I prefer to conneet it with the handle,.so thatit may bescrewed out when to be moved forward.

lThe point of the wire forms the writing-point of the pen,'andwi ll notbe subjeotto the inconveniences of improperly-shaped steel or otherplates now used.

Having thus described my invent-ion,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

A writing-pen, consisting of'V the split or unsplit plate A, and of theadjustable wire or rod O, substantially as described, to operateasspecified.

` JAS. W. TRUMAN.

Witnesses: y

' B. E. GRIMES,

P H. O'r'ro.

